"make you to become fishers of men" - The Hell Must be Full of Money

The Tama-gawa River Flowing around Tokyo

The Hell Must be Full of Money

Christ Jesus said that he showed truth to infants but not to scholars.

This teaching can be interpreted as the God shows more truth to the poor than the rich, since infants are, anyway, materially poor.

A man having $100 despises material knowledge of another having only $1.
A man having $100,000 despises material knowledge of another having only $100.
A man having $1 million despises material knowledge of another having only $100,000.
A man having $100 million despises material knowledge of another having only $1 million.
And a man having $1 billion despises material knowledge of another having only $100 million.

But, a man having only $100 million may have more spiritual knowledge than another having as much as $1 billion.
Yet, a man having only $1 million may have more spiritual knowledge than another having as much as $100 million.
Yet, a man having only $100,000 may have more spiritual knowledge than another having as much as $1 million.
Yet, again, a man having only $100 may have more spiritual knowledge than another having as much as $100,000.
And finally, a man having only $1 may have more spiritual knowledge than another having as much as $100.

The more a man has money, the more he may have material knowledge than those who have less money.  But, the less a man has money, the more he must have spiritual knowledge than those who have more money.

Put simply, money makes a man blind to spiritual truth to any degree.  And, put extremely, huge money beyond a certain threshold level must make a man completely blind to spiritual truth.

Children can see what adults cannot see, in terms of truth of men.  The poor can see what the rich cannot see, in terms of truth of the human world.

That is why there are no descriptions in the Gospel that Christ Jesus had, kept, and used money.

In this context, we may be allowed to think that Judas had been so poor that only 30 silver coins could make him completely blind to the spiritual power Christ Jesus had.   Judas with 30 silver coins must have been rejoiced so much materially and became completely blind spiritually.

Anyway, living without money is a kind of great spiritual training.  And, it is unthinkable that any money is going on circulation in Heaven.  On the other hand, the hell must be full of money, so that spiritual truth must be completely hidden there.

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Mar 1:17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
Mar 1:18 And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.
Mar 1:19 And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.

"nor of the will of man, but of God" - God Loves the Poor and Rejects the Rich

One of the Oldest Shinto Shrines around Tokyo

God Loves the Poor and Rejects the Rich

There are two types of people.  Those who believe in the God and those who do not.

If one believes in the God, one has to believe in existence of Heaven and the hell or the spiritual world.  The Bible was written by those who believed in the existence of the God.

And the main stream of this civilization of the mankind has been built, developed, and deployed by those who read the Bible.  It proves that the Bible has power to create civilization.  None can deny this power of Christianity.  But, how much one loves the God is another matter.

Christ Jesus even pointed out defects in faith among the Jewish people who never denied the existence of the God.

Mat 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Mat 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
Mat 3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

As these words imply, one may believe in existence of the God; one may even accept the concepts of Heaven and the hell; but one may still choose money over the God.

Satan of course knows that God exists and there are Heaven and the hell.  But Satan is determined to fight against the God.  Therefore, those who follow Satan know that God exists and there are Heaven and the hell.  But they love to follow Satan, get rich and happy, and fight against the God.

Put simply, according to Christ Jesus and the Bible, God is telling people to get poor, while Satan is telling people to get rich.  And most of people would accept the temptation by Satan and try to be rich and happy as much as possible.

However, the more one becomes rich, the less one respects the God, which rejoices Satan.

The God should get angry at people who follow Satan to be rich.  So, the God would neglect them and make stones that do not read the Bible but follow Him the successors of the great ancestor of the Jewish people Abraham, since the stones are poor forever.

The issue between rich and poor is more profound than people think.  It leads to Heaven and the hell.  It symbolizes hatred of the God or Satan.

In this context, the final object of civilization is not to make the mankind rich and happy but make them love the God more.

So, it is thought that it is the poorest man in the world that understands the truth and the reason why the God loves the poor and rejects the rich, even if the rich believe in the God.


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Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Joh 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.